Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/31/1859249/top-brussels-official-urges-europeans-to-work-from-home-drive-less-as-energy-crisis-deepens
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> In [3]a speech with echoes of the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, EU energy chief Dan Jorgensen said Europe was facing a "very serious situation" with no clear end in sight. "Even if ... peace is here tomorrow, still we will not go back to normal in the foreseeable future," he said, following an extraordinary meeting of the EU's 27 energy ministers on Tuesday to discuss the crisis. "The more you can do to save oil, especially diesel, especially jet fuel, the better we are off," Jorgensen said, confirming an earlier report by POLITICO that Brussels wanted Europeans to travel less.
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> He urged member countries to follow the advice of the International Energy Agency, which he said included "work from home where possible, reduce highway speed limits by ten kilometers [an hour], encourage public transport, alternate private car access ... increase car sharing and adopt efficient driving practices." Longer term, he urged EU countries to double down on building more renewables, saying "this must be the time we finally turn the tide and truly become energy independent."
[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/europeans-urged-to-work-from-home-and-drive-less-as-eu-warns-of-long-crisis/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
[3] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_26_767
Gulf conflict? (Score:2)
You mean elderly stable genius who threw away Obama's successful treaty and caused Iran to close the straight? Or did I get something incorrect?
Tax Incentives (Score:2)
If they really want this to happen the government should offer tax incentives to businesses who will agree to allowing employees to work remotely. And if they have been found to violate that policy, then the incentives get revoked immediately.
Oh NOW it's good (Score:2)
Yesterday working from home was for lazy do nothings that didn't want to be tortured by narcissists, but now that it threatens "people that matter" it's suddenly a good thing.
We keep trying! (Score:3)
With some jobs requiring physical presence aside lots of people stuck in the past keep trying to get everyone into the office...because #InsertBSReasonHere
I hear it from people working in IT all the time. "They want us in at least 3 days a a week" or worse because otherwise they get confused. How will support staff that work on remote systems work on remote systems remotely from home if they are not working on remote systems remotely from the office?!
How will vain shiny shoes managers look over the shoulder of plebs and see they're sweating??
Office work is essential to uhm productivity? Nope. Uhm happiness? Nope. Uhm engagement? Nope. Customer satisfaction? Nope. Onboarding?! Nope.
If remote work was a problem we'd all be working from inside a data centre and manually transfer information to customers by delivering in person.
The good news is that soon AI will be able to replace these people completely because their dogma is easy to procedurally replicate.
The bad news is that AI will soon be able to monitor so many things constantly that it'll know how many beads of sweat you might have in your nether regions to assess if you have been squeezed enough to be a "keeper" this time around...
If only (Score:2)
Most of us would love to go back to working from home but the bellends at the top have to justify paying rent on a big building(or existing) so say we can't :(.
Re: (Score:2)
where i live & work there's a big push to return-to-office from the government.
it seems this is part of their master plan to generate more revenue for businesses in the big cities
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Funny how that once-in-a-life-time switch to work from home, didn't stick, and all the corporate morons wanted to go back to the office, because they don't care about fuel and energy costs.
Like only a small handful of areas in the US/Canada would be able to switch to WFH at the drop of a hat, Metro Vancouver and Montreal, because they have automated metros. If it's automated, then going to the office to work and working from home just saves you commute time. If you have to drive, like most of the rest of th